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Cat Nap. [Sam Ruby]

Allies: Iraqi General’s Home Struck. Coalition aircraft on Saturday struck the villa of an Iraqi general known as “Chemical Ali” for ordering a poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds in 1988. Allied officials said the general – Saddam Hussein’s cousin – was believed to be home at the time, but it was not known whether he was killed or wounded. [Associated Press war headlines via GoUpstate.com]

Barrage of Fire, Trail of Death. A three-hour raid by sixty American tanks through Baghdad was a blur of bullets and explosions with an estimated 1,000 Iraqis killed. By Steven Lee Myers. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Rumsfeld Poetry. The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld – Recent works by the secretary of defense. By Hart Seely… [#!/sablog : Shanti Braford’s daily links]

new Massachusetts anti-spam bill. Roger Dingledine points out a new Massachusetts anti-spam bill (status) which bans “software which … is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of facilitating or enabling the falsification of electronic mail transmission information or other routing information”; this would seem to include not just spam-blasting software but also anonymous remailers. [Hack the Planet]

Rumsfeld and the Generals. In this week’s mini-mutiny of the generals against Donald Rumsfeld, it was awfully tempting to side with the generals. By Bill Keller. [New York Times: Opinion]

When a Dash Becomes a Siege. Much of what we’ve seen of Gen. Tommy Franks’s battle plan calls to mind Gen. George S. Patton’s favorite battlefield dictums. By Robert Patton. [New York Times: Opinion]